During a Monday sit-down with “CBS This Morning,” Pitt was shown a clip from Jolie’s recent “60 Minutes” interview, in which she said “I’m still a bad girl,” but that that side of her “belongs to Brad” now.

Vieira stepped down as co-host of “Today” last June to spend more time with her family. NBC News announced that she would start a new role at the network, and she was named a special correspondent for Brian Williams’ news magazine in September. She joins a roster of famous faces that includes Ted Koppel and Chelsea Clinton.

Vieira will sit down with Alford, who was a 19-year old White House intern when her affair with JFK began. Alford broke her silence about the relationship almost forty years after it happened. She had given a short statement about it for an oral history that was released with a biography of Kennedy, and the Daily News tracked her down to confirm the story.

Rossen and his team will also report investigative stories for “NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams” and “Dateline.” An insider draws a parallel between Rossen’s unit and the work of ABC’s chief investigative correspondent: “You have not seen a unit like this since the glory days of Brian Ross.”

Banfield acknowledged she knew it was “awkward” for her to even ask him the question, which a clearly gobsmacked Vitter evidently did not see coming.

“That’s going to be the case in this presidential election,” Vitter continued. “I think the voters are going to look carefully at all sorts of issues — but my guess is what concerns them now is this horrible, horrible economy and their future and their struggles around the kitchen table.”

“Well, I appreciate that you say it’s not up to CNN,” Banfield countered. “But I like to say we’re the messenger here, and one of the messages that you gave was this quotation about your incident and you said this was a ‘very serious sin in my past for which I am, of course, completely responsible.’ And that’s why I bring it to you, not so that CNN can dictate how voters will vote but so that we can take your message, including that one, which was kind of a embarrassing thing to admit to as Newt Gingrich has had to admit to some very embarrassing things and have voters take those messages.”

“Right, Ashleigh, sure,” Vitter responded.

“What I’m asking you is, can you compare the difficulties that you struggled with to a what Newt Gingrich is struggling with?” Banfield pressed.

The MSNBC host will be joining House Democrats on a retreat in Cambridge, Maryland on Wednesday, according to the Roll Call. The focus of the retreat, which has the theme “Reignite the American Dream,” will be honing the group’s message about jobs and the economy going into the 2012 election.

Schultz will speak on a panel about Minority Whip Steny Hoyer’s “Make it in America” plan. The retreat’s other discussions will largely focus on core policy issues, and also feature Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. speaking on the “History of the Democratic Party: the Struggle for Rights.”

The half-hour show will see an initial run of 10 once-weekly episodes, beginning in March.

“Assange will draw together controversial voices from across the political spectrum — iconoclasts, visionaries and power insiders — each to offer a window on the world tomorrow and their ideas on how to secure a brighter future,” a media advisory explained.

“Through this series I will explore the possibilities for our future in conversations with those who are shaping it,” Assange said in the advisory. “Are we heading towards utopia, or dystopia and how we can set our paths? This is an exciting opportunity to discuss the vision of my guests in a new style of show that examines their philosophies and struggles in a deeper and clearer way than has been done before.”

The series was being produced by Quick Roll Productions, which was still in the process of examining licensing inquiries for the show.

Schieffer: Mr. Speaker, I’ve got a proposal for you. We’re going to be in Miami next week broadcasting Face the Nation, a special one hour edition. If I could get Mitt Romney to come sit down at the table with us would you come on and debate him for the full hour, just the two of you?

Gingrich: Well listen, I have to consult with R.C. Hammond, as you know, but I will tell you I personally would like to do that. I have a hunch that if you can get Governor Romney to agree to the three of us to sit down next Sunday, it would be perfect and I suspect we’d be happy to come and do it.

Schieffer: Alright, well we’ll look for you then and I’ll call him up right now. Thanks very much and congratulations.

Hayes spoke to Boumediene via satellite and through an Arabic translator; Boumediene now lives in the south of France with his family. Before the interview, he played footage of President Obama saying he was going to close the Guantanamo prison. He called the tape “very hard to watch right now,” since the prison remains indefinitely open, and since Obama has expressed his support for detaining people without trial there.

Boumediene told Hayes that, when he was captured, he assumed it was all a mistake.

“I thought that America was a great country,” he said. “That there was justice and freedom. And…that they would realize i am innocent and they would let me go home to my family. But it was totally to the contrary.” He said he was told by one of his interrogators some years into his detention that his case was a purely political one that had nothing to do with terrorism.

Boumediene eventually went on a hunger strike inside the prison. He told Hayes that, though his captors knew that there was a permanent blockage in his left sinus, they would jam his feeding tube into that nostril “for five to ten minutes” until they hit bone.

He also discussed the toll his detention has taken on him, even after his release.

“I don’t have anything,” he said. “I lost all my life. I go and try to find a job. They ask me, between 2002 and 2009, what did you do? And this is where the shock is. The interviewer hears the word ‘Guantanamo’ and they freak out.”

Harris-Perry tweeted the news on Thursday, and wrote that her new show will follow Chris Hayes’ weekend program, “Up With Chris.” The new show, which does not yet have a title, will air on Saturday and Sundays from 10:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. The show will debut on Saturday, February 4.

Harris-Perry has been a frequent guest on MSNBC, with appearances on “The Rachel Maddow Show,” Al Sharpton’s “PoliticsNation,” and “The Last Word With Lawrence O’Donnell.” Harris-Perry has filled in for hosts Rachel Maddow and Lawrence O’Donnell.

Harris-Perry’s ascension is also notable in an industry often derided for its lack of diversity. She is now one of two black women, and three black hosts anchoring programs on MSNBC.

The addition of Harris-Perry’s show also marks an increase in the cable news additional scheduling changes for the network’s weekend programming. “Up With Chris,” which previously aired at different times on Saturdays and Sundays, will now air on both days from 8-10:00 a.m. MSNBC weekend anchor Alex Witt will expand her live news coverage on Saturdays and Sundays. “Weekends with Alex Witt” will air from 7-8:00 a.m. on Saturdays, and 12-2:00 pm. on both Saturdays and Sundays.

“We asked Keith to be the sole anchor and exec producer of our primary and caucus coverage beginning tonight. Unfortunately, he declined to anchor or participate.”

Earlier Tuesday, Olbermann indicated that his show “Countdown” was returning, but by 7 p.m. ET, he said it was not to be.

“So as not to mislead: I am informed Countdown will not be on tonight,” Olbermann tweeted. “I must defer on all questions to @JoelHyatt @AlGore and @Current.”

Instead, Gore was on air alongside his two other prime time hosts, Cenk Uygur and Jennifer Granholm. Current’s Chief News Officer and on-air visage was MIA.

These mixed signals come amid reports of tension between Olbermann, who has fought his way off networks before, and Current.

As the New York Times’ Brian Stelter wrote last Thursday, Olbermann’s involvement in the election so far – or lack thereof – is puzzling. He did not appear in a pair of special reports that followed GOP candidate debates.

“These absences suggest that there may be new tension between Mr. Olbermann and the managers at Current, who are trying to create a progressive-oriented cable news channel,” Stelter wrote.

Pressured by Chris Matthews to explain if his candidate had any conversations on ads with the Super PACs endorsing him, attorney Ben Ginsberg provided a strong, yet dubious, opinion of the former Massachusetts Governor.

“Ben, you’re saying that’s he’s wrong, that he’s wrong to tell the Super PAC to cool it?” Matthews asked.

“No, my candidate is never wrong,” Ginsberg replied. “You’re mixing apples and oranges in which you’re trying to get me to say.”

Romney earlier said that he helped the Super PACs raise money, but carefully noted that “the law says I can’t tell them what ads to run or when to run them or where to run them.